The book “Understanding Power Project Procurement” was recently launched by U.S. General Counsel Peter B. Davidson. It is the third in a series of Power Africa handbooks that was written in a Book Sprint in September 2017. The sprint was hosted by the Commercial Law ... read more
Yesterday was the final day of the epic dual-language Sprint in Accra, Ghana. The policy paper The Private Sector and Climate Change Adaptation was written for civil society about how to engage the private sector in climate change adaptation initiatives ... read more
Yesterday we started our first ever Book Sprint in two languages. Oxfam Ibis has gathered a group of half English-speaking and half French-speaking participants to write a policy brief about financing climate adaptation through the engagement of the private sector. ... read more
In review, 2016 was a year full of interesting Book Sprints and some changes to the management of Book Sprints Ltd. Founder Adam Hyde is now the director of the board and appointed Barbara Rühling as CEO and Katerina Michailidi ... read more
The Book Sprint for International IDEA and HDS finished up on Friday afternoon with the book Dialogues on Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Political Parties in Elections. During five days, six participants from IDEA, HSD, NIMD and the Center for ... read more
Today it’s our second day of a new Book Sprint in the charming city of Bern, the capital of Switzerland. The book is an initiative led by the Human Security Department of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (HDS) ... read more
Book Sprints founder Adam Hyde blogs a lot about publishing, open source and collaboration. If you would like to read his posts have a look here! http://www.adamhyde.net/ His latest post about Attribution and Open Source is a particularly good read but ... read more
This week, the World Bank invited eleven experts of open contracting and mining contracts as well as a Book Sprints facilitator to Kent Island in Maryland. In three and a half days they set out to collaboratively design a tool ... read more
The latest Book Sprint, now taking place in Maryland brings together a group of experts organised by the US Energy Association and the Department of Energy to create a handbook for African governments wanting to set up natural gas development ... read more
After four days we completed the Book Sprint for the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership Operations Manual, and had some delicious ice cream to celebrate! Phil Karp, Lead Knowledge Management Officer at the World Bank who organized both the first and ... read more
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